Olives are their own food group for my daughter and I! We're reviewing all school lunch ideas today because she starts 1st grade tomorrow! Olive are a major component to many of our lunchboxes! Fingers crossed!(11 or 16 "California Ripe Olives" in the post I counted!)

I feel bad saying this but we could honestly eat our weight in black olives and we eat them plain. I will chop them into sauces but mostly we just add them to salads or plain into our lunches. In fact, my daughter has olives keeping company with her bean burger and cauliflower in her lunch today :)

I love eating California Ripe Olives on pizza, plain, in any Mexican-ish dish, and did I mention plain?! :) My girls also like them, but their favorite way to eat them is the classic stick-them-on-your-fingers-and-eat-them-off technique.

My girls LOVE California Ripe Olives! They eat them whenever possible. My 3 year old will go to the pantry in the morning and bring me a can of olives and tell me she wants them for breakfast! They are a must in our family! :)

Mmm...California Ripe Olives! Most delicious on my hubby's famous pasta salad, but I also LOVE watching my 4 girls stick them on their fingers and devour them! And I counted 20 "California Ripe Olives" (that includes the title, and the contest info at the bottom)!

I have been a silent follower of your blog since I found it 6 weeks ago. I find it inspiring and it has changed the way I pack my kids lunches. That being said, my kiddos love olives. We eat them in salad, on pizza, and just as a snack. My son also loves olives with hummus. Yum!

We LOVE California Olives around here! We love to put lots of them on our homemade pizzas, in salads, and in our bento lunches. My kids favorite bento lunch is Angry Birds (an idea from right here on this blog) with big black olives as the bomb birds. We love your olives!

My favorite way to eat olives is as a topping for pizza. I also enjoy baking plantains when they are ripe in the oven... kind of like a lasagna except layering with ripe (yellow) plantains instead of lasagna noodles. I do the plantains, ground meat, and add olives in there. Sounds great but it's super tasty. My son loves it too but my daughter complains it's an acquired taste. :)

Our entire family of six is gaga for olives! We eat them on a daily basis in so many different ways. The one time we could not find a can in the pantry it was a major family crisis. The kids favorite thing to do is to put one on each finger and pretend they are frogs.

My husband LOVES to slice them up and put them on pizza before we cook it (on both homemade pizza or by adding them on a store bought frozen one because there are never enough on frozen ones). We also ALWAYS have them with our relish tray for holidays. Our three year old also likes putting them on her fingers. We would love to win this California Ripe Olives giveaway.

My son loves olives EVEN MORE than I do (didn't know it was possible!), but would never expect to see them in his lunchbox. Mommy will get bonus points now! Thanks for the opportunity to win that awesome olive/lunch package. :-)

Olives any way we can get them - a seven layer dip, on a pizza, an olive tapenade, but most of all on each finger! Can't wait to try your recipe - wonder where to find the phyllo cups in a standard grocery store?

When my daughter first tried olives she was only 18 months. I have the cutest pictures of her with one on each little finger. Even now she likes to eat them off her fingers. (Just make sure you tell her they are olives. She mistook them for grapes once and wasn't very pleased).

We love olives on salads, pizzas, tacos, nachos.....Today we had Olives on our spinach, black beans, and corn salad. Yummy! Would love the gift pack for my kindergartner! Thanks for the inspiration! NancyLspangler at yahoo dot com

My six year old loves olives! Her favorite way to eat them is off her fingers, of course! We also love to make our own spaghetti sauce with lots of olives. We already pack our lunches bento style, and are grateful for a chance to win!

I also like them just out of the can, but I also like them on pretty much anything else too!! I have LOVED them ever since I was a little girl. My grandmother was a vegetarian and she used olives in all sorts of creative ways. She sort of made them be the 'meat' of a lot of dishes.

Want to make dinner time fun for toddlers, using olives? Whip up some spaghetti, toss in olive oil infused with garlic and a splash of lemon juice. Slice off the bottom part of the olives so you have two holes on both ends of the olive. Toss them in. My son loves threading the spaghetti through the olive and making a necklace out of it. Makes great fine motor skills practice. And tastes yummy, too!

Want to make dinner time fun for toddlers, using olives? Whip up some spaghetti, toss in olive oil infused with garlic and a splash of lemon juice. Slice off the bottom part of the olives so you have two holes on both ends of the olive. Toss them in. My son loves threading the spaghetti through the olive and making a necklace out of it. Makes great fine motor skills practice. And tastes yummy, too!

We LOVE olives at my house! We eat them on salads, in pasta, on pizza, in tacos and just plain! Love putting them in luchboxes with cute little cupcake picks. My son loves olives in a tortilla with pepperoni, perfect for his lunchbox.

My daughter LOVES olives. In fact, we're sad we didn't name her "Olive"!

We took her to France (her grandmother lives in Paris) six years ago when she was not quite 3. At the farmers markets in Paris as well as Provence, the vendors could not believe that a girl so young enjoyed tapenade so much!

To this day, she eats as many olives as she can get her hands on. Today for her school lunch I made her a bento of an herb turkey wrap, carrot sticks, sliced cheddar cheese, olives, and organic thin mint cookies. She was pleased as punch when she saw what I was packing.

And, for what it's worth, this girl's favorite way of eating California Black Ripe Olives is by slipping a finger into each olive hole so they sit atop them like little black heads. Then she pops them in her mouth and asks for more!